Sargent's Lemon Cream Cheese Bars

These easy desert bars are a lemony delight between two flaky crusts. Here we tried to make it a bit healthier by using a sugar substitute and you can cook with. Also the dough and the cream cheese are lower fat. This is to honor our LGBT Hero, Dick Sargent.

Cut these bars into 12 wonderful chewy deserts for any gathering. They go great with the Super Bowl!

Ingredients:

cooking spray

2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent roll dough (lower fat)

2 lemons, zested and juiced, divided

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened (lower fat)

½ cup sugar substitute

2 tablespoons butter, melted Butter

3 tablespoons sugar substitute

2 eggs

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray. 

Notice I left an overhang on each end to help in removal of the bars.

Press 1 can crescent roll dough into the bottom of the prepared baking dish, stretching to the edges. 

Beat 1 of the eggs and brush it lightly all the way to the edges.

Bake for 15 minutes, then cool for 20 minutes.

Zest 2 lemons, and save juice from 1 of them. Set aside zest from about ½ lemon for the topping. Mix most of the zest and juice from the lemon in a bowl.

Beat in 1 egg. Beat cream cheese and ½ cup sugar substitute into lemon zest mixture using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; spread over cooled crescent roll dough layer.

Unroll the second can of crescent roll dough onto a piece of wax paper. Invert this on top of cream cheese mixture, gently stretching dough to the edges. Brush rest of egg wash.

Mix remaining lemon zest and 3 tablespoons sugar substitute together in a bowl; sprinkle over top.

Bake in the preheated oven until top is golden brown, about 30 minutes. Allow to cool for about 20 minutes.

Then refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour.

Lift dessert from baking dish using foil; transfer to a cutting board. Cut into squares, leaving on foil. 

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Dick Sargent

Richard Stanford Cox, known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an actor, notable as the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on ABC TV's comedy Bewitched. He took the name Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist of the same name.

Sargent was born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, 1930, to Ruth McNaughton. She appeared under the stage name of Ruth Powell, and had important supporting bit roles in such films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Hearts and Trumps with the great Nazimova. Sargent's father, Colonel Elmer Cox, who served in World War I, later became a business manager to such Hollywood alumni as Douglas Fairbanks and Erich von Stroheim.

Sargent attended the San Rafael Military Academy in Menlo Park, before majoring in drama at Stanford University. As a student, he appeared in more than two dozen plays with the Stanford Players Theater.

After graduating, he won a bit part in the 1954 film "Prisoner of War," with Ronald Reagan, and appeared in the films "Bernardine" and "A Touch of Mink," starring Cary Grant.

Sargent appeared in the 1959 feature film Operation Petticoat again starring Cary Grant and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken starring Don Knotts in 1966. His later movies included the crime drama Hardcore (1979) as Jake Van Dorn's strait-laced brother-in-law, Wes DeJong, and as Dr. Jameson in the sci-fi horror film Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979).

He also played Sheriff Grady Byrd on two 1979–1980 season episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard.

Sargent continued to work in film. He played Harry in Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) opposite Elvis Presley and Michele Carey and made guest appearances on various television series including: Gunsmoke, The Rat Patrol, I Dream of Jeannie, Three's Company, The Waltons, Charlie's Angels, Knots Landing, Family Ties, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Adam-12, The Streets of San Francisco, Ellery Queen, Baretta, Switch, The Six Million Dollar Man, Marcus Welby, M.D., Trapper John, M.D., Alice, Taxi, Benson, Diff'rent Strokes, Here's Lucy, Love American Style, Murder, She Wrote and L.A. Law. In 1990, he also portrayed himself on an episode of Columbo.

In the mid-1980s, he landed the steady role of Richard Preston, the widowed father, in the TBS sitcom Down to Earth. He also appeared in the fantasy comedy Teen Witch (1989).

Throughout the 1980s, he joined actress Sally Struthers as an advocate for Christian Children's Fund, which brought relief to children in developing nations.

In 1991, on National Coming Out Day, Mr. Sargent announced he was gay. The high rate of suicide among young homosexuals was the main reason, he said, jokingly referring to himself as a "retroactive role model."

He recognized that his ill health may have led people to assume he had AIDS.

Sargent had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1989.
"I don't have AIDS," he said. "I am HIV-negative. But if I did I would wear that badge as proudly as everybody else who has it."

In a television interview by March of 1994, a frail-looking Mr. Sargent said the disease had spread.

"I don't know how much longer I have, and nobody can seem to predict it, he told "Entertainment Tonight."

Mr. Sargent was best known for his role, from 1969 to 1972, on "Bewitched." He played Darrin Stephens, a "mortal" coping with marriage to a charming witch, Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery. His predecessor as Darrin, from 1964 to 1969, was Dick York, who died in 1992.

The series was one of top shows in its day. Sargent was originally offered the role in 1964, but turned it down to due the short-lived sitcom Broadside.

The National Enquirer Ran a story stating that Montgomery felt uneasy around Dick York because he had developed a crush on her. She lobbied her husband series producer, Bill Asher, to dump York and replace with the gay actor Sargent. The newspaper also alleged that Agnes Moorehead (Endora) was also gay along with series regulars Maurice Evens (who played Samantha's father) and Paul Lynde.

Doctors were initially optimistic that it could be treated. However, the disease continued to spread and, by early 1994, he had become seriously ill.

He lived with his domestic partner, Albert Williams, until his death.

Sargent died from the disease on July 8, 1994, at age 64. His body was cremated.

Former Bewitched co-star Elizabeth Montgomery commented, "He was a great friend, and I will miss his love, his sense of humor and his remarkable courage." Montgomery herself died of colon cancer less than a year later.